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Putin v The West (BBC). Three-parter about how the West handled Putin leading up to Ukraine based around interviews with key players like Cameron, Hollande, John Kerry, Putin's ambassador etc.
A catalogue of good intentions and naievity but also incompetence and wanting to brush any hard stuff under the carpet. Cameron, Hollande, Biden & Kerry come out of it well, Merkel and much of Europe more worried about cheap oil and gas than Putin being dangerous and the concerns of the Baltic states. Obama is the one who comes out worst - backtracking on deals with allies, changing his agreed position on the hoof, not taking Putin seriously and avoiding hard decisions. Baltic state leaders, in particular, seem to hold Obama in thinly-disguised contempt.
Outstanding modern history which lets the key protagonists speak rather than frazzle your senses with loud music and graphics.
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@Victor-Meldrew Thanks fo the tip. I'll try and dig that one out.
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@canefan said in TV Serieseseses:
I've started watching The Hardy Boys on Disney+ with CF Jr. It's pretty good, and Jr loves it. It's cool to see him enjoy something that I loved as a boy
Jeez, I used to read all of those as a kid. Is the show reasonably true (obviously updated) to the books? I hate it when they just take the name and turn it into something entirely different (eg Riverdale)
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final season coming, cant wait..
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Survivor
I love watching the duplicity, especially with the changes made in the last few seasons. Season 42 is one where the cast looks like the island of misfit mascots.
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Warrior Nun
- Right, I'm pretty sure I watched this on one of you fluffybunny's recommendations
- The bitch is annoying. From the start
- It turns out, she got some tits. But hidden like. Chaste. Like a nun. Kinda.
- Some of the other nuns are kinda hot, and more cleavage shown than one would expect
- Season 2 - fuck, that bitch is annoying
- I get that this level of "B-level action bullshit" series is going to hit the same tropes, but...
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- previously: bitch insists on an ill-thought-out-plan... literally insisting others join in...
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- later, conversation:
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- "I feel like it's all my fault..."
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- "no, fuck off, I didn't choose this..."
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- Yes. You did. You fucking literally did choose the shit you're complaining about, when you insisted on the plan that everybody fucking else objected to. Fuck off you hot big-titted pretty little bitch.
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- Not to mention the fallback Arrow-type bullshit storylines of "No, let's just run away and forget that I am a magically enabled being, and fuck off to do sapphic shit somewhere while the world burns". Which I would watch. And would have made a better S02 finale.
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Anyone watched 1923, the following on from 1883 and probably a prequel or so prior to Yellowstone?
Finished it last night, largely decent, but there are 3 story arcs running, and by end the 3 arcs do not merge as you would expect, 1 I have no idea how it will merge in, and the other 2 just meandered along going no where, especially when you know how things pan out cos Yellowstone.
So I have to assume there will be a 2nd season of 1923 before they move onto 1963 or something...
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
Anyone watched 1923, the following on from 1883 and probably a prequel or so prior to Yellowstone?
Finished it last night, largely decent, but there are 3 story arcs running, and by end the 3 arcs do not merge as you would expect, 1 I have no idea how it will merge in, and the other 2 just meandered along going no where, especially when you know how things pan out cos Yellowstone.
So I have to assume there will be a 2nd season of 1923 before they move onto 1963 or something...
This does not make me want to watch this. Sheridan’s stuff has a much shorter shelf life than he imagines. 1883 was good and stayed good because it had a beginning, middle and end. For sure, it offered the possibility of a follow on story but it stood up well on its own. Seems like he’s going down the route of milking it like a scouser does Hillsborough.
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@Catogrande yeah I had never entertained that it might be a multi season series, just assumed it would be a single seaosn like 1883, that we enjoyed, and even when the final ep was aired I was thinking there was alot to tie up in an hour, then an hour later nothing at all was tied up.
I think a 2nd season could be good, but was just the 3 arcs didnt even get close to merging, for the one loose story, maybe I had seen more of Yellowstone I might see the link, but otherwise I cant work out what the point was.
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I gave up on Yellowstone after S2. I just felt that there must be a limit to the number of people you can kill in spectacular fashion without anyone noticing.
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
I gave up on Yellowstone after S2. I just felt that there must be a limit to the number of people you can kill in spectacular fashion without anyone noticing.
That didn’t stop Banshee going for several seasons
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The Last of Us
Watched first episode
Well made
But isn't it just Fungi The Walking Dead?
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
The Last of Us
Watched first episode
Well made
But isn't it just Fungi The Walking Dead?
It’s better
Well actually the first seasons of the walking dead were terrific to be fair
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@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
The Last of Us
Watched first episode
Well made
But isn't it just Fungi The Walking Dead?
It’s better
Well actually the first seasons of the walking dead were terrific to be fair
Better or different?
Or both?
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
The Last of Us
Watched first episode
Well made
But isn't it just Fungi The Walking Dead?
It’s better
Well actually the first seasons of the walking dead were terrific to be fair
Better or different?
Or both?
Last of us is more of a…….”mission” as opposed to just trying to get by.
Lots of flashbacks explaining things.
Both excellent but TWD overstayed it’s welcome.
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@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
The Last of Us
Watched first episode
Well made
But isn't it just Fungi The Walking Dead?
It’s better
Well actually the first seasons of the walking dead were terrific to be fair
Better or different?
Or both?
Last of us is more of a…….”mission” as opposed to just trying to get by.
Lots of flashbacks explaining things.
Both excellent but TWD overstayed it’s welcome.
Might come back to it once I've finished other shows
Thanks
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
Survivor
I love watching the duplicity, especially with the changes made in the last few seasons. Season 42 is one where the cast looks like the island of misfit mascots.
Episode #5: These people must have been a deliberate casting decision. An astounding number of them would normally be the clear and obvious outlier voted off for being stupid/ incompetent/ physical liability.
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@Catogrande I've only done 1 sesson of Yellowstone, I'd seen the sister series of Sons of Anarchy...but as we liked 1883 thought 1923 would be great too, which it is to a point...
